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　最後に転載しているニュースデイ記事ではオペレーション・モッキングバードについて触れていない。ましてや大陪審がこのことを追求することはあるまい。まずは参考までに。

Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html

Media assets will eventually include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens.

Columnist and \"Crossfire\" host Robert Novak

Following Iraq\'s bioweapons trail
By Robert Novak
September 26/02
http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorbkgd/following.html

　現在、大陪審は、弁明も空しいＣＮＮエグゼクティブ・プロデューサー、ノバクによる７月１４日記事に先立つ、アフリカ歴訪時のエアーフォースワンの交信記録を調査中だが、ノバクの記事がワシントンポストに出る前にホワイトハウスがウィルソンの誹謗中傷キャンペーンを行っていたことが発覚した。

Andrea Mitchell NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent

NBC\'s Andrea Mitchell claims Supreme Court \"denied Gore the Presidency.\"
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1037247/posts

　フライシャー広報官はウィルソンを「低レベルの職員」と述べている。調査対象となっている２４名を上回るジャーナリスト・コンタクト・リストの明細は明かされていないものの、このことをスクープしたニュースデイは、タイム誌による匿名政府情報筋に基づくとするＣＩＡ職員である妻がウィルソン氏をニジェールに送ったとする記事や、グリーンスパンの妻、ＮＢＣ外交チーフ、アンドレア・ミッチェルがウィルソンを民主党パルティザンと切り捨てたことを紹介し、その後ホワイトハウスのパーティーで、夫であるグリーンスパンが来賓として出席していることを付加えている。

Transcript shows early effort to discredit ambassador
Document subpoenaed in CIA leak probe
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usleak0306,0,2962040.story
March 6, 2004

WASHINGTON -- A transcript subpoenaed in the CIA leak

probe reveals the White House press operation began efforts to personally discredit former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV days before a columnist blew the cover of his CIA-officer wife.

As Newsday reported Friday, a federal grand jury served three subpoenas on the White House in January for Air Force One telephone records and a transcript of a press briefing during the presidential trip to Africa the week before Robert Novak\'s July 14 column identifying CIA officer Valerie Plame.

The grand jury also subpoenaed White House records of staff contacts with an expanded list of more than two dozen reporters who wrote or broadcast about administration concerns over Plame, Wilson and his CIA report that rejected rumors that Iraq tried to buy uranium in Niger.

The White House Friday confirmed it had received subpoenas. \"We\'re still in the process of complying fully,\" said spokesman Scott McClellan.

The efforts to discredit Wilson came after he went public July 6 with criticism of President George W. Bush for mentioning the uranium rumor in January 2003 in his State of the Union address which helped make a case for the Iraq war.

In the subpoenaed July 12 transcript of a briefing in Nigeria, then press secretary Ari Fleischer called Wilson a \"lower-level official\" and said Wilson had made flawed and incomplete statements. Fleischer did not return calls Friday.

Meanwhile, many of the journalists on the subpoena\'s list have reported various attempts by the Bush administration last year to discredit Wilson by suggesting his wife arranged for the CIA to send him to Niger.

For example, Time Magazine reported three days after Novak\'s column that unnamed administration officials had described Plame\'s relationship to Wilson and suggested she had gotten him the mission.

One journalist, NBC reporter and \"Meet the Press\" host Andrea Mitchell, appears to have several connections of interest.

On July 6, she interviewed Wilson about his trip to Niger, and two days later she reported officials tried to cast Wilson as a Democratic \"partisan.\"

And on July 16, her husband, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, was honored at a White House reception held to celebrate former President Gerald Ford\'s 90th birthday. The grand jury subpoenaed the guest list, which has not been released.

\"I shouldn\'t talk about it,\" Mitchell said Friday, declining to say if she attended the reception. Asked why the grand jury might be interested in it, she said, \"I can\'t even imagine.\"

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